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Augusta Contractors Are Rebuilding the Oil
Movement For Better Roads to
Reach Climax
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Augusta and the South to Set Pace For the Nation
I'Jhiire streets are to be repaved
and’roofed and-thus turned into ad
juncts to the large auditorium; ac
commodations are to be provided for
mord tlian five thousand guests; ar
rangements are completed for the
greatest government exhibit that has
ever been made; and the city itself
is to be turned over to the visitors
ironii all parts of the country with a
view to making the Fourth American
Road Congress to be held in Atlanta,
<}a.,' November flth to 14th, the most
successful and striking road conven-
ever hold in this country.
This is the report brought back by
I. S. Pennybacker, executive assist
ant of the American Highway Asso
ciation, which, with the American Au
tomobile Association and their allied
organizations, is in charge of the con
gress. The movement for better
reaps in the United States is expect
ed to reach its climax at Atlanta and
the new government-maintained high
way from Washington to Atlanta will
be bead> for the tourists who will at
tend the convention, in a statement
given out upon his return to Wash
ington, Mr. Penny backer said;
"There is no doubt that the coming
convention will he the largest, and
certainly one of the most, succesful
ever held ip the history of the road
movement in the United States.
Highway engineers and legislators
frofn every state in the Union have
already announced their intention of
being present. , There will be repre
sentatives from foreign eountdies and
the exhibits will he the moat sinning
ever sliow'n at a road congress.
‘ Already the exhibits indicate a ten
dency to overflow the auditorium and
whf>e 1 was in Atlanta arrangements
were being made to remove the cob
ble-stone pavement of Gilmer Street
and replace it with more modern ma.
terfals. The'street is to be roofed
so That it can be used for the over
flow exhibits. The city itßelf is go
ing to give organ recitals for the
pleasure of the guests and is also to
give a municipal tea to the ladies
who accompany the delegates. The
whole ciiy te working together to
mulce the convention the biggest and
nibtjt successful ever held in this
country. An entertainment, fund of
SFi.ftOO ( lias been provided and there
is feo doubt about the comfort of Uie
guests. The - program, -with is
speeches and its papers on the road
movement, read by the most eminent
authorities in the United States, will
be the most interesting we have ever
arranged,
Charles P. Light, business manager
of ;the American Road Congress, will
leave for Atlanta within the next, few
PINE MOUNTAIN GRANITE COMPANY
Stone and Granite Contractors and Quarry Operators
The plant at Litho
nia is one of the
largest in the entire
south,handling noth
ing but granite and
employingabout 250
men.
The product of this
company is sold from
Tampa, Fla., to Bal
timore, Md., and
west as far as the
Mississippi River.
The quarry has an
output of 1,500 cars
•aWHually.
days and will take charge of the ar
rangements of exhibits for the com
ing- toad congress and especially of
the allottmer.t of space for the exhib
itors.
Hon. A. B. Fletcher, president of
the Congress and State Highway En
gineer o California, and Hon. L. W.
Page, president of the American
Highway Association and Director of
the U. S. Office of Public Roads, are
taking a doe,; and active interest in
the success of the congress.
PARTICULAR.
I do not like the slangy bent
Of Henry Arthur Street, It
Distresses me to such extent
That when he talks I beat if.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
1 do not care for slang in verse,
It worries me to scan it;
8a I don't copy any of
The stuff— f promptly ran it.
We are the Only Large Growers of
CUT FLOWERS IN AUGUSTA
We grow the floweis we sell. Always fresh.
Special attention to out-of-town orders.
Flowers ordered by telegraph anywhere in
civilized world.
Stulb’s Nursery
FLORISTS
Phones—Office: 549; Residence: 153 G-J.
Near City Cemetery.
P. 0. Box 497. Augusta, Ga.
Branch office Garden e’s 744 Broad. Phone 570
Quarries: Lithonia, Ga.
PAVEMENTS THAT BLOW UP
In the laying of wood-block paving,
there is perhaps nothing which gives the
engineer more concern than the chance
that the paving may some day- “blow
up." It Is easily possible by propev
specifications and inspection to secure
good material and have it well laid. The
trouble from “bleeding,’’ which frequent
ly occurs, can be taken care of by cov
ering the pavement with sand or other
absorbents. Systematic application of
grit to the pavement tn slippery weather
will re move the objections of teamstevs.
It Is rather puzzling to an engineer, how
ever, lo know what to do to prevent the
rising of mounds in the streets looking
like an Incipient volcano, the result of
some long-continued soaking rain by
which the blocks have become thoroughly
saturated.
It would he exceedingly, interesting,
we believe, if the hureau of standards
would make some such tests upon the
stresses in wood paving due to expan
sion as they have made on concrete pav
ing. There ts considerable evidence to
Indicate that a blow-up from expansion
is most apt to occur when rain follows
a long period of extremely dry and hot
weather, during which the blocks become
thoroughly dried out and sand and dirt
fill the points, so that when the pave
ment is again expanded by moist— the
slack has been taken up, ho to speak. If
this Is a correct diagnosis, it would
seem that systematic sprinkling of wood
paved streets during dry weather might
be an Important safeguard In preventing
trouble when the drought is broken
Engineering News.
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
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for YOUR eyes only, put it in one of
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Fire cannot reach it“»bur£lars cannot get it and you
will have absolute privacy because all of our Safe
Deposit Boxes are fitted with Yale Locks which can
not be opened unless you help. These locks have
double mechanism that requires two different keys to
unlock. You have one key and we hold the other==
and both must be used at the same time or the box
cannot be opened.
Depository United States Court, Northeastern Division Southern District of Georgia.
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Corner Broad and Eighth Streets.
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Offices: Atlanta, Ga.
Pine Mountain Gran
ite has been largely
used in and around
Augusta. W.F.Bowe
used it in the paving
of Marbury St., said
to be the smoothest
piece of Graniteßlock
Paving in the United
States. Pine Moun
tain Granite is now
being used on the
government bank
protection work car
ried on by A. J.
Twiggs & Sons.
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